—Ranking plays important roles in contemporary Internet and vertical search engines. Among existing ranking algorithms, link analysis based algorithms have been proved as effecti...
Web spam is behavior that attempts to deceive search engine ranking algorithms. TrustRank is a recent algorithm that can combat web spam. However, TrustRank is vulnerable in the s...
—Data fusion is the process of integrating multiple sources of information such that their combination yields better results than if the data sources are used individually. This ...
Text search engines return a set of k documents ranked by similarity to a query. Typically, documents and queries are drawn from natural language text, which can readily be partiti...
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